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After dominating the air, land and sea in the last fifty or so years, the United States of America is now all set to thwart any cyber attacks and defend itself from cyber terrorism or cyber warfare, the U.S Cyber Command has now officially come online with full operational capability. The U.S Cyber Command, which will be under the direct supervision [...]

So far, we have seen robotic vehicles such as bomb disposal robots that are being used in Iraq to sniff out roadside bombs for the coalition forces and then there are the unmanned drones that are used for reconnaissance and striking terrorist targets from the air. However, there was yet to be a unmanned machine capable of underwater exploration that [...]

President Barack Obama has finally made his decision on the dangling appointment of the nation’s cyber security coordinator naming Howard A. Schmidt as the United States national cyber security coordinator. Mr. Schmidt has been a renowned computer security executive and had also served under the Bush administration. The announcement for the latest [...]

NASA is pretty renowned for screw ups that only it can manage to pull off and after re-recording on the moon landing tapes its reputation has been on a one way trip down the spiral. With the International Space Station (ISS) in eternal need of repairs and pare parts and the space shuttles at NASA’s disposal only operation for another year or so, [...]

The much awaited U.S.S New York, the newest of the U.S Navy warships was commissioned on Saturday with U.S Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton present at its side during the inception ceremony. The New York has been built with more than 7.5 tons of steel that was salvaged from the remains of the World Trade Center, that was demolished by audacious and [...]

One of the principle contractors to the U.S Department of Defense, Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $1 billion contract to equip all the Aegis class ship with ballistic missile defense systems. This contract in under the continuing Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon System Program, initiated by the Missile Defense Agency of the Pentagon. As per [...]

Somali pirates have threatened to retaliate after two hostage rescues by foreign forces have killed at least five of their companions. The last operation undertaken by US forces gained the release of Captain Richard Phillips. Three Somali pirates perished during the rescue operation. Recent events have raised fears of increased violence in the shipping [...]

The U.S. Navy begins to take action to reduce the number of motorcycle accidents among its marines who die in these circumstances that most of enemy fire in Iraq, reported in this Friday, official sources. According to official data, since November last year 25 Marines died in motorcycle accidents, while in the period 20 were victims in the conflict [...]

The US Navy has award money to expand a self-contained distant electronic sniffer part which power be delivering to holds of believe vessel by a robot airplane to turn out to conscious of “chemical, explosive, and against the law drug residue”. VIASPACE Inc, which spins off technology from NASA, was satisfied to announce these days and [...]